• The AWS Systems Manager CloudWatch Dashboard will no longer be available after April 30, 2026. Customers can continue to use Amazon CloudWatch console to view, create, and manage their Amazon CloudWatch dashboards, just as they do today. For more information, see [Amazon CloudWatch Dashboard documentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch_Dashboards.html). 

# Working with patch compliance reports
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Use the information in the following topics to help you generate and work with patch compliance reports in Patch Manager, a tool in AWS Systems Manager.

The information in the following topics apply no matter which method or type of configuration you're using for your patching operations: 
+ A patch policy configured in Quick Setup
+ A Host Management option configured in Quick Setup
+ A maintenance window to run a patch `Scan` or `Install` task
+ An on-demand **Patch now** operation

**Important**  
Patch compliance reports are point-in-time snapshots generated only by successful patching operations. Each report contains a capture time that identifies when the compliance status was calculated.  
If you have multiple types of operations in place to scan your instances for patch compliance, note that each scan overwrites the patch compliance data of previous scans. As a result, you might end up with unexpected results in your patch compliance data. For more information, see [Identifying the execution that created patch compliance data](patch-manager-compliance-data-overwrites.md).  
To verify which patch baseline was used to generate the latest compliance information, navigate to the **Compliance reporting** tab in Patch Manager, locate the row for the managed node you want information about, and then choose the baseline ID in the **Baseline ID used** column.

**Topics**
+ [Viewing patch compliance results](patch-manager-view-compliance-results.md)
+ [Generating .csv patch compliance reports](patch-manager-store-compliance-results-in-s3.md)
+ [Remediating noncompliant managed nodes with Patch Manager](patch-manager-noncompliant-nodes.md)
+ [Identifying the execution that created patch compliance data](patch-manager-compliance-data-overwrites.md)